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SPRING LAKE — Mayor Jennifer Naughton Tuesday briefed the Spring Lake borough council on new flood zone regulations proposed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection [NJDEP], stressing their importance to “all shore communities.”
The proposed regulations are based on NJDEP predictions that flood zones will experience five-foot increases, she said at the council meeting, adding that the proposed changes based on those predictions “are very significant.”
The information was presented at last week’s New Jersey Conference of Mayors by NJDEP Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette. According to Mayor Naughton, the NJDEP has already published the resolutions it would like to adopt for inland flooding and it is now focused on the state shoreline.
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“It is something that I think this council and all shore communities should be interested in,” said Mayor Naughton. “There will be effects from climate change; I think we all know that. But we want to make sure that any regulations, we see them long before.”
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